Individuality And Conformity In Public Schools Most academic professionals proclaim public education strives to help students achieve personal fulfillment, and create an environment that provides the education and training to create capable members of society. For example, graduation requirements teach students the essential skills one needs to be successful upon entering the workforce. However, this basic knowledge isn’t enough to give students insight on who they are. Nor is it enough to provide guidance on what one can achieve. This is where conformity and individuality comes into debate. Public education should not be a factory system where graduates are merely pushed out into the world. Instead, the unique individuality of students minds …show more content…
If they are able to grasp important personal studying strategies such as their learning style, then they’ll be able to not only gather more information, but retain more too. Scott Hawksworth (2015) published an article titled Knowing Your Learning Style Can Help College Success for Stanford University about the benefits of knowing one’s learning style in higher education. In this article Hawksworth remarks, “A learning style is an individual’s approach to learning based on strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. And knowing yourself as a learner is important if you want to achieve to the best of your ability.” If public schools adapt to individualized learning strategies for their students, then students would be able to engage more with their academic studies. For instance, allowing students to learn from each other by initiating classroom discussion would help communication skills, and enabling students to choose their method of studying would help them achieve better understanding of material. This would open the door to greater things in the educational community. It would improve student/teacher relationships, allow students to study in a way that keeps them engaged, and it would increase achievement for students …show more content…
Language barriers, diversity, individual medical/mental health needs, and home life situations are just a few of the issues teachers and staff members have to recognize to help the child receive the education they need to succeed. Academic staff members are so much more than mentors because of all of the extra work they must put in to maintain a stable, and educational environment. Conformity in cases like these is the supplementing part to a harmonic environment. Popular author, Michael Linsin, writes that consistency, cleanliness, and routine in the classroom can help to alleviate the stress students may be experiencing at home.This in turn, can help create the best academic environment for the